NEWPORT, Del. (CBS) — New Castle County police are investigating the suspicious deaths of a 45-year-old woman and her 18-month-old son in Newport. Officers responded to the Stonehurst Garden Apartments on Richards Drive on Wednesday morning.

Residents say the mother and boy did not live in the apartment for very long and were shocked to learn of their deaths.

“I stepped out and looked and police cars, crime scene tape all over the place,” resident Dan Lee said.

It was all hands on deck for New Castle County Police after after the woman and her toddler son were found dead in a Newport apartment.